Outcome # 2 Flashcards
Food retailers
today food at:
Durgstores
discount stores
warehouse clubs
convinience stores
conventional supermarket
Offers groceries, meat, and produce with limited sales of nonfood items, such as health and beauty aids and general merchandise, in a self-service format.
big-box food retailer
Comes in three types: supercentre, hypermarket, and warehouse club; larger than a conventional supermarket; carries both food and nonfood items.
convinience stores
limited number of items in small stores with speady check out
general merchandise retailers
May be discount stores, specialty stores, category specialists, department stores, drugstores, off-price retailers, or extreme-value retailers;
may sell through multiple channels, such as the Internet and catalogues.
Discount store
Offers a broad variety of merchandise, limited service, and low prices.
Walmart and giant tiger
specialty stores
Concentrate on a limited number of complementary merchandise categories in a relatively small store
category specialist
Offers a narrow variety but a deep assortment of merchandise.
Best buy and home depot
category killer
Offers an extensive assortment in a particular category, so overwhelming the category that other retailers have difficulty competing.
Department stores
Are retailers that carry many types of merchandise
broad variety) and (deep assortment
Drugstores
A specialty store that concentrates on health and personal grooming merchandise
off-price retailer
A type of retailer that offers an inconsistent assortment of merchandise at relatively low prices.
extreme-value retailer
A general merchandise discount store found in lower-income urban or rural areas.
Dollarama
Service retailers
Firms that primarily sell services rather than merchandise.
